Purdue Arboretum botanical terminology reference and learning database.
Imbricate Overlapping like roof shingles. This feature helps describe plant form, function, or identification. Did you know? Pine cone scales overlap imbricately like shingles, protecting seeds until the cone opens.
Impressed Located below the surface. This feature helps describe plant form, function, or identification.
Incised Cut by sharp and irregular incisions around the edge. This feature helps describe plant form, function, or identification.
Indurate Hardened. This feature helps describe plant form, function, or identification.
Inferior Beneath, below. This feature helps describe plant form, function, or identification. Did you know? Apples develop from flowers with inferior ovaries; the fleshy apple includes tissue around the ovary as well as the ovary itself.
Introrse Turned inward or opening inward. This feature helps describe plant form, function, or identification.
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